Kate Beckinsale with Harvey Weinstein at an awards night at Claridge's Hotel in London in December last year

Beckinsale, daughter of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, said she was called to meet Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel when she was 17.

Writing on the social media post, she said: "I assumed it would be in a conference room which was very common.

"When I arrived, reception told me to go to his room. He opened the door in his bathrobe.

"I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him.

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Kate Beckinsale pictured in 1992 when she was just 19

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British actress Kate Beckinsale, pictured in the early 1990s

"After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed.

"A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting.

"I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not."

She added: "I had what I thought were boundaries - I said no to him professionally many times over the years - some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a c**t and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people oh 'Kate loves to say no to me'.

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The Underworld star said in her post that the meeting took place on a school night

"It speaks to the status quo in this business that I was aware that standing up for myself and saying no to things, while it did allow me to feel uncompromised in myself, undoubtedly harmed my career and was never something I felt supported by anyone other than my family.

"I would like to applaud the women who have come forward, and to pledge that we can from this create a new paradigm where producers, managers, executives and assistants and everyone who has in the past shrugged and said 'well, that's just Harvey /Mr X/insert name here' will realize that we in numbers can affect real change.

"For every moment like this there have been thousands where a vulnerable person has confided outrageous unprofessional behavior and found they have no recourse, due to an atmosphere of fear that it seems almost everyone has been living in."

She continues: "I had a male friend who, based on my experience, warned a young actress who said she was going to dinner with Harvey to be careful.

"He received a phone call the next day saying he would never work in another Miramax film; the girl was already sleeping with Harvey and had told him that my friend had warned her off.

"Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder, and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick, and that we have work to do."

Police today ordered investigators in the Special Victims Division “to endeavour to identify and locate and interview any potential victims” of the disgraced movie producer, a high-ranking police source told the New York Post.

"He’s a super predator. His conduct shows he’s been at this a long time, and he’s a professional at it,” a police official said.

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The pair are pictured laughing together during a party in London before the allegations emerged

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Weinstein pictured with his hand on Kate Beckinsale's waist as they attend the aftershow party of the Avatar premiere in London in December 2004

"He’s been at this so long, there’s no way there are not other victims out there.

"Imagine how many promises he’s made to these young women who were trying to make it into the industry."

The directive followed a blockbuster report by the New Yorker magazine, which on Tuesday published accusations from three women who accused Weinstein of raping or otherwise sexually abusing them.

One of the women, Lucia Evans, said she was a Middlebury College student and aspiring actress when Weinstein approached her at the since-shuttered Cipriani Upstairs club in Soho in 2004.

Evans, now 34, said she later accepted an assistant’s invitation to meet Weinstein at his office, where he raised the possibility of casting her in a movie.

"At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me," Evans said.

"I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t'….He’s a big guy. He overpowered me."

DISGRACED MOVIE PRODUCER IS 'SUICIDAL'

A video shows the moment Harvey Weinstein staggered into the road and tried to flag down a passing car after his worried daughter told cops he is "suicidal".

The movie producer was heard screaming "you're making it worse" after he stormed out of her LA home on Wednesday, TMZ reports.

The 65-year-old rushed to comfort 22-year-old Remy because she was "very upset and concerned for her father", Page Six reports.

The pair reportedly had a row and he stormed out of the house - causing her to call cops telling them her dad was "suicidal and depressed" as sexual abuse claims from Hollywood A-listers mounted against him.

She later had a change of heart and told officers he was not at risk of self harm after Weinstein came back to her home.

A friend told Page Six: "Remy overreacted at the situation, out of love and concern for her father, and called the police, telling them he was depressed and suicidal."

Although New York at the time had a five-year statute of limitations for prosecuting felony sex crimes, the incident is covered by a 2006 law that removed that restriction, officials said.

Evans didn’t return messages, and police sources said she may be outside the country.

Her dad declined to comment at his home outside Albany.

In addition to Evans, actress Asia Argento also told the New Yorker that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 1997 inside the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, and an unidentified woman alleged that Weinstein raped her, but the magazine didn’t say when or where.

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Latest reports suggest Weinstein has checked into a rehab centre for sexual addiction

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Hillary Clinton, Georgina Chapman and Harvey Weinstein attend the TIME 100 Gala in New York in 2012

In 2015, Weinstein avoided prosecution in the groping of a Filipina-Italian model inside his Tribeca office, even though cops secretly recorded him apologizing to Ambra Batillana Gutierrez, then 22, while trying to coax her into a room inside the Tribeca Grand Hotel.

“Why yesterday you touched my breast?” Gutierrez asked him, according to an audio clip posted online by the New Yorker.

Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday defended his decision not to charge Weinstein, saying: “Our sex-crimes prosecutors made the determination that this was not going to be a provable case and the decision was made not to go forward.”

At one point, Vance very familiarly referred to Weinstein by his first name only.

“We’re focused on the facts, not whether people liked Harvey,” the DA told reporters.

NYPD sources have expressed outrage over Vance’s decision, and one cop said that if presented with new cases, “The feeling is, this time they wouldn’t be so quick not to charge.”

Also, the University of Buffalo said it was moving to revoke an honorary “doctorate of humane letters” it awarded Weinstein in 2000, 30 years after he dropped out.

In announcing its desire to strip Weinstein of the honor, the school noted that he “personally never made a gift to the university,” but that the Walt Disney Co. donated $22,750 on behalf of the Miramax film company after buying it from Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob.

Weinstein has denied any “non-consensual sex.”

A spokeswoman didn’t return a request for comment for this story.

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